
Why OS Development Isn't for the Faint of Heart
Introduction OS development isn’t some quick, glamorous project you can knock out in a weekend. It’s a brutal, unforgiving process. You’ll spend countless hours—or even days—staring at code and chasing down bugs, just to make something as simple as “Hello, World!” work. It’s frustrating, tedious, and requires a level of persistence most people don’t have. If you’re looking for instant results, you’re in the wrong place. The Reality of Debugging (Note: While some debugging tools exist—such as GDB for certain setups—debugging in OS development is still a challenge. Unlike debugging user-space applications, you often deal with limited visibility, no standard runtime, and hardware-specific behavior that makes traditional debugging approaches less straightforward.) ...